ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant
THE United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and dozens of organisations and countries are striving to block or delay an arrest warrant by the...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers picket TGWU office
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers picketed the Hillingdon Regional Office of the Transport and General Workers Union yesterday. They told fellow union members that their employment...
Defend wages & jobs – RMT condemns bosses’ automation threat
‘THIS IS dangerous nonsense and must be opposed by the whole trade union movement,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday responding to a...
Doncaster carers march today
UNISON members working for Care UK are marching through Doncaster today at 2pm after 30 days of strike action against Bridgepoint Capital, the private...
Barghouti at risk in Israeli jails
JAILED Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is at immediate risk in Israeli jails, where he has been attacked three times in as many weeks, including...
Doctors ‘deep sense of outrage’ over wage cut!
CITING ‘doctors’ deep sense of outrage’, BMA Chair Mark Porter has written to health secretary Hunt urging him to reconsider this year’s real-terms pay...
Musa Ibrahim Reports From Libyan War Fronts
MUSA Ibrahim, spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, gave an interview to the Syria-based Al-Ra’y TV on the evening of September 18. He said: ‘We...
Sla Killing Civilians
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said yesterday she was deeply concerned by reports of the rapidly deteriorating conditions facing a quarter...
Tens of thousands strike in north of Ireland!
THE north of Ireland was yesterday gripped by a 24-hour general strike by health, education, transport and civil service workers protesting against job...
NHS ‘Reforms’ Condemned!
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday moved to oppose the Health and Social Care Bill, arguing that serious concerns have not been addressed...
TIME TO GET RID OF THE CRISIS-RIDDEN CAPITALIST SYSTEM – WRP’s MAY DAY MANIFESTO
THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of the world who are confronting a...
Secret trials go ahead!
THE ‘secret courts’ Justice and Security Bill places UK Security Services and Government Ministers ‘above the law,’ civil rights charities Reprieve and Liberty warned...
WORKERS DEMAND ACTION – as Woodley refuses to ballot Airport TGWU members
TRANSPORT and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley led a delegation into talks with British Airways chief Rod Eddington at Heathrow Airport yesterday...
STRIKE! – Don’t allow Royal Mail privatisation!
POSTAL workers began balloting for strike action yesterday while the government, in a provocative move, chose the same day to announce they would float...
St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars
TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...
UCU Strike Ballot To Fight Man Uni Sackings
ONE hundred and forty staff working at Manchester University have been threatened with the sack prompting their union, the University and College...
‘KEEP ROYAL MAIL IN PUBLIC SECTOR’ – but unions refuse to strike against privatisation
‘Today’s positive results are more compelling evidence of why Royal Mail should be kept in the public sector,’ CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward,...
More Unite ambulance workers to take strike action on May 2
MORE Unite ambulance workers have decided to take part in industrial action on Tuesday May 2nd. Unite said yesterday that members at South Central, South...
Irish Privatisation Disaster!
FIANNA Fail has betrayed its working class supporters and Irish Government aviation policy is a complete disaster‚ said TEEU (Technical, Engineering and Electrical Trade...
Balfour Beatty Withdraws Contracts
The Unite trade union, yesterday welcomed the withdrawal of controversial contracts by Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES), which would have resulted in the termination...
Bonus For Not Sending An Ambulance!
LONDON Ambulance Control Room workers are being offered bonuses of up to £250 if they can reduce by 30 per cent the number of...
‘Prosecute now’ demand Grenfell campaigners
MARKING four-and-a-half years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire on June 14, 2017, survivors and campaigners are demanding police accelerate their criminal investigation into...
STEP UP THE ACTION! – postal workers demand
OVER 1,000 striking postal workers converged on the headquarters of Royal Mail yesterday to demand management enter ‘meaningful talks with the CWU (Communication Workers...
NATIONALISE THE RAILWAYS! – ASLEF, RMT and TSSA launch Judicial Review
RAIL unions ASLEF, RMT and TSSA have launched a Judicial Review to challenge the government over plans to re-privatise the East Coast railway. The unions...
Diego Garcia used for ‘extraordinary rendition’
Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday admitted that on two occasions, both in 2002, UK overseas territory Diego Garcia had been used for US rendition...
‘Women refused admission to Maternity! – Glasgow Health Board apologises
THE GREATER Glasgow health board has apologised after women in labour were refused admission to a maternity unit because of overcrowding. NHS Greater Glasgow and...
EU announces £22bn tariffs on US imports
THE EU has announced retaliatory tariffs of up to 26bn euros (£22bn) on US imports, responding to President Donald Trump’s 25% levies on global...
GENOCIDE! – Six US-made bombs fired on Jabaliya Refugee Camp
HUNDREDS of people were killed yesterday afternoon when their homes in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp, which is next to the Indonesian Hospital in north...
Byrne Announces Immigration Crackdown!
Immigration minister Liam Byrne yesterday announced that all visitors to Britain requiring a visa are now having their fingerprints taken in their home country. Byrne...
Further Education Unions Demand 6 Per Cent
The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...
Cuts begin as Starmer launches massive hike in arms spending!
‘STARTING today, I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War,’ Labour...
No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers
TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer. All she could say was...
‘We are asking for the pay that we lost to be returned to us!’...
ANGRY NHS workers on strike outside Barnsley hospital in South Yorkshire spoke to News Line yesterday. Ellen Newberry, deputy chair of Junior Doctors Committee (BMA),...
Postal workers strike vote ‘biggest ever’ says CWU leader Dave Ward
POSTAL workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of striking for pay, in a ballot of 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), with...
Syrian Armed Gangs Reject Annan Plan
TURKEY scrambled six F-16 fighter jets near its border with Syria yesterday afternoon after Syrian helicopters came close to the border, but...
British Gas – 500% Profits Rise
‘This greed has got to be stopped and the government should step in now and levy a windfall tax on the company,’ said UNISON...
NO OPTION BUT TO STRIKE! – say the teaching trade unions
THE two largest teacher unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, yesterday confirmed the next phase of their jointly...
RMT Industrial Action Vote
RAIL union RMT confirmed today that it has declared a dispute and is preparing an industrial action ballot on Great Western services. This is after...
NHS crisis rattles coalition!
THE government plan to set up a £3.8bn a year fund to amalgamate health and social care, has collapsed and has been ‘postponed’. The...
Homeless Families Driven Out Of London
15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...
Corbyn OKs second referendum vote
YESTERDAY morning, both in the capitalist press and on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that if the Labour Party...
Leicester faces localised lock-down!
HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel yesterday warned that the city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. She said...
BLAIR AT BAY: ‘NO REGRETS’ – over the imperialist slaughter
TONY Blair was unrepentant about invading Iraq when he appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 war yesterday, and said repeatedly that he...
‘We Will Defeat The Health Bill!’
DELEGATES passed motion 51 on ‘Southern Cross and the Care Sector’ yesterday morning at the TUC. It called for ‘robust regulation’, ‘all care homes to...